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— Parker Yates

Former SAP executive joins Docker to scale the company’s growth in the enterprise and drive the next wave of innovation

 

SAN FRANCISCO – May 2, 2017, 9:00am ET – Docker today announced that former Concur Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and SAP executive Steve Singh has joined the company as CEO.  Steve brings over 20 years of experience in building and scaling world-class software companies including some of the most successful brands in technology. In his new role at Docker, Steve will be at the forefront of scaling Docker’s business, brand and continued innovation serving Docker’s customers, partners and community. He will also serve as Chairman of Docker’s board of directors. Ben Golub, Steve’s predecessor as CEO of Docker, will stay on as a director on Docker’s board.

 

“Over the past four years, Docker has grown at an incredible rate. We are now seeing widespread traction in the developer community and the enterprise market,” said Solomon Hykes, Founder and CTO, Docker. “Without Ben, Docker wouldn’t be in such an incredible position as a platform and as a company. Under his leadership, we built a world-class team and a huge, diverse community that is rewriting the rules of software development and distribution. Ben built the foundation for an exceptional company, and demand for Docker’s product is off the charts. With Steve’s unique expertise, we will build an organization capable of delivering on that demand, and serving our customers across the globe.”

 

Steve is a proven enterprise leader, having founded and built a category-creating company and a billion-dollar business at Concur before it was acquired by SAP in 2014. As the president of the business networks and applications group, and an executive board member at SAP, Steve was responsible for driving a multi-billion-dollar division of SAP that included Concur, SAP Ariba and SAP Fieldglass. Steve joins Docker at a time when the company is experiencing strong momentum in the enterprise software market with hundreds of commercial customers and the introduction of Docker Enterprise Edition, a complete platform that addresses the entire application lifecycle with integrated security, management and orchestration. Steve will work closely with Docker’s leadership team to continue to advance the Docker platform and drive customer, partner and community growth.

 

“Great businesses are built on a very simple principle, and that is to deliver sustainable value for customers,” said Steve Singh, Chairman and CEO of Docker. “As companies look to create a new generation of applications and services to bring their business into the global digital economy, many are turning to Docker for dramatic improvements in developer productivity and new operational and capital efficiencies. We are privileged to serve customers such as ADP, GE, Visa and MetLife in partnership with industry leaders such as Microsoft, Cisco, Accenture, HPE and Alibaba. I look forward to working with the entire Docker team as well as the broader Docker community to help usher in the new era of application computing. I believe that Docker, backed by its platform and fueled by innovation from its collaborative ecosystem, is on track to be the next great enterprise software company.”

 

“Steve’s success in building a software business from nothing to over a billion in revenue sets him apart, both as a strategist and a leader,” said Peter Fenton, General Partner at Benchmark Capital. “The team approached Steve to join the board to bring his expertise and passion for the Docker opportunity. Having operated as a director for the past year, Steve’s appreciation of the ‘once in a generation’ scale of the Docker opportunity, combined with the strength of the partnership between Solomon’s vision and Steve’s leadership, makes this a perfect match.”

 

Since Docker’s inception and subsequent pioneering of the container industry in 2013, the company has experienced rapid growth amounting to more than 12 billion downloads, a rich and innovative ecosystem that includes millions of developers, and hundreds of partner companies in addition to hundreds of Global 2000 customers. Docker’s industry-changing technology is accelerating an evolution of traditional technologies by addressing major enterprise initiatives – from hybrid cloud and microservices to application modernization.

 

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About Docker, Inc.

Docker, Inc. is the company behind the Docker open source platform, and is the chief sponsor of the Docker ecosystem. Docker is an open platform for developers and system administrators to build, ship and run distributed applications. With Docker, IT organizations shrink application delivery from months to minutes, frictionlessly move workloads between data centers and the cloud and can achieve up to 20X greater efficiency in their use of computing resources. Inspired by an active community and by transparent, open source innovation, Docker containers have been downloaded more than 12 billion times and Docker is used by millions of developers across thousands of the world’s most innovative organizations, including ADP, GE, Goldman Sachs, Intuit, PayPal and Societe Generale.

— Parker Yates

Cloudify 4 delivers new tools for both application developers and power users,

evolving into a full-featured Cloud Management Platform (CMP)

 

NEW YORK // April 26, 2017 — The latest version of Cloudify open source multi-cloud management software—Cloudify 4—ships today, with new features that present a direct threat to legacy cloud management platforms (CMPs) used by enterprises since the earliest days of cloud. These legacy CMPs—such as RightScale and CloudForms—are showing their age now that orchestration-first approaches like Cloudify have matured, adding CMP features and enhanced performance in the latest version. Cloudify 4 is available for download here.

 

Orchestration-First CMP

CMPs were built to satisfy central IT demands for control, and PaaS platforms were built to satisfy casual developer demands for ease of use. Orchestration platforms, by contrast, were built to satisfy power user demands for advanced automation and lifecycle management.

 

Cloudify 4 takes an “orchestration first” approach to cloud management, bringing the key capabilities of all three approaches into one platform. The new version expands the number of potential users to include not just power users, but developers who prefer PaaS-like features such as a simple, one-click portal and integration with CI/CD processes.

 

With these updates, Cloudify 4 emerges as an orchestration-first CMP. It delivers an application catalog, multi-tenancy support, user-managed and role-based security, and enhanced clustering and high availability. It also provides new monitoring and analytics via a customizable portal, equipping Cloudify 4 to address the needs of business unit users and IT operations, not just power users.

 

Read more about The End of Cloud Management.

 

Cloudify 4 Webinar

The Cloudify team will present Cloudify 4 features and orchestration-first CMP capabilities in a webinar on Thursday, April 27th, at 11AM, EDT. Register to participate and ask questions.

 

How Cloudify 4 is Different From Traditional CMPs and PaaS Platforms

Traditional CMPs like RightScale and CloudForms target infrastructure management and IT operations. PaaS platforms like Cloud Foundry and OpenShift target developers, enabling deployment from IDEs to the cloud. Orchestration tools like Terraform have largely been targeted at high-end DevOps users that are looking for infrastructure automation. These differences mean enterprises have chosen different management platforms for these two groups. This has led to cloud management silos and a lack of collaboration between developers and central IT.

 

The orchestration-first approach offered by Cloudify 4 combines the traditional features of a CMP with PaaS-like functionality and powerful orchestration capabilities in a shared environment. In so doing, Cloudify 4 eliminates cloud management silos.

 

Cloudify Momentum in 2017

Revenue targets for Cloudify in the first quarter of 2017 were surpassed by 60 percent, with a record number of seven-figure subscription deals signed. The company also reports steady customer growth among both enterprises and top-tier telcos.

 

Current users of Cloudify 3—including carriers and enterprises—have participated in Cloudify 4 testing and evaluation and have already selected it as their go-forward cloud management platform.

 

New Features For Operators

• The multitenant self-service portal provides a central interface to control who gets access to the environment and which resources they may access.
• Application/service reporting tools monitor the key performance indicators per application.
• Activity monitoring provides insights into activity per user per application over time.
• Enhances security via SSL-based communications among multi-cloud environments.

 

New Features For Application Developers

• Catalog of services widgets provides an easy way for developers to select and activate their target environment through a set of self-managed services, without requiring intimate knowledge of the “certified” tools or infrastructure.
• Built-in integration enables support for popular frameworks and cloud environments, including container frameworks such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Simple CLI experience provides the ability to run an application through a command line interface from a local desktop environment for development and testing purposes.
• One-click consumable provisioning of resources and tooling through a simple service catalog UI.
• Dynamic, customizable user experience via a fully configurable UI framework.

 

New Features For Power Users

• Model-driven blueprints provide the interface for automating all key components and workflows needed to manage the application and interface with the underlying resources that comprise the application.
• Model-driven design provides RESTful API access to all the resources exposed in the cloud management system, from the infrastructure resources to the monitoring system—north- and southbound, as well as east and west.
• The extension through plug-in capability provides an interface to extend the cloud management system to support any API endpoint or resources that need to be part of the application lifecycle.
• A highly customizable CLI interface offers popular and easy choices for integration with the build system.

 

Cloudify 4 delivers built-in support for container frameworks like Docker, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes and Mesos for infrastructure automation, service orchestration, and hybrid stack support. It supports common microservices architectures through a model-driven approach in which microservices are modeled as a self-managed service.

 

Cloudify 4 ships with innovations in network orchestration that are application driven, opening the door for a new model for addressing network security, specifically in multi-cloud scenarios. As a founding member of the Open Network Automation Platform project, Cloudify will continue investing in this area.

 

About Cloudify

The open source Cloudify orchestration project was started under the corporate support of GigaSpaces. As Cloudify has matured, it has begun moving into a stand-alone brand and business unit. Reflecting that maturity, Cloudify 4 has adopted new branding to reflect its emergence as a complete cloud management platform that serves power users, business unit developers and IT operations. This vision is reflected in the tagline, “Developer Freedom, Your Success.”

 

Open source Cloudify is based on the TOSCA standard. Service providers and enterprises worldwide—including top financial firms, e-commerce companies, online gaming providers, healthcare organizations and telecom carriers—use Cloudify to enhance IT efficiency and performance at web scale. More at cloudify.co.

 

— Parker Yates

OverOps, the application reliability and log intelligence company, announced today that it has closed its Series C round of financing and raised $30M, which will be used to scale the company’s efforts in the enterprise IT operations market. The financing is led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, who also led the previous OverOps funding round in 2016, with participation from Menlo Ventures, another existing investor. This raises OverOps’ venture funding to date to $52M. For Lightspeed, this marks a significant investment in the Application Reliability ecosystem following the $3.7B acquisition of its portfolio company AppDynamics by Cisco in January.

OverOps (formerly known as Takipi) transforms application logs into real-time intelligence that enables modern development and operations teams to solve critical production issues in minutes vs. days or weeks. Today, most companies rely on searching through endless log files trying to identify the root cause of production errors. OverOps enriches log files with an intelligence layer, so for every error, developers and devops engineers gain rich information on what led to that error, including the stack trace, source code and variable values, as well as debug level log lines, regardless of what the log level was set to in production.

This allows OverOps’ 250+ enterprise customers, like TripAdvisor, Kaiser Permanente, Samsung, Comcast, Fox, Zynga, Cox Automotive, Intuit and Nielsen, to increase staff efficiency by 90%, reduce operational expenses, and ship code faster, allowing teams to “fail forward” and fix issues on-the-go. OverOps currently employs 60 employees in its San Francisco and Tel Aviv offices.

In the last 12 months, OverOps has achieved several notable milestones:

• 500% YoY revenue growth
• 250+ Enterprise customers
• On-premises and hybrid hosting capability for critical applications
• Platform support for microservices and containers
• Real-time proactive alerting notifications for IT teams, including Slack, HipChat, PagerDuty and JIRA integrations

“We’re delighted to have received such a great vote of confidence from our existing investors,” says OverOps CEO Tal Weiss. “While the way we monitor and deploy applications improved dramatically over the years, with the move to microservices, containers and continuous deployment, fixing production issues still heavily relies on log files, a 20 year-old technology that hasn’t changed since it was created. Our goal is to enable teams to focus on building products and features rather than fixing broken applications.” Weiss added that the funding will be used to expand the company’s enterprise offerings to include .NET CLR support, further increasing OverOps enterprise reach.

The Series C round is led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, who has a strong track record of backing category-leading enterprise companies, including Riverbed, Nicira, Nutanix, Mulesoft and AppDynamics, which was recently acquired by Cisco.

“We’re excited to play such a major part in the OverOps journey,” said Arif Janmohamed, Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. “The company’s strong technology and team are a winning combination that has led the company to reach and surpass significant milestones. OverOps has shown incredible growth this past year, and we wanted to double down on our commitment.”

 

Venky Ganesan, Managing Director at Menlo Ventures, said, “We’re proud of the work Tal and team have done, and we are looking forward to accelerating the growth of OverOps and disrupting the broken ecosystem of application reliability.”

 

About OverOps

OverOps is an application reliability and log intelligence company that enables organizations to understand when, where, and why their applications break in production. OverOps dynamically captures unique, smart data from the application runtime that allows operations and development teams to troubleshoot 10X faster than traditional log management solutions. OverOps has attracted over 250 customers like Samsung, HP Enterprise, Fox, and Cotiviti, who are transforming the way they manage applications in production. OverOps installs in 5 minutes and requires no code changes. Visit www.overops.com to learn more.

About Lightspeed Venture Partners

Lightspeed Venture Partners is an early stage venture capital firm focused on accelerating disruptive innovations and trends in the Enterprise and Consumer sectors. Over the past two decades, the Lightspeed team has backed hundreds of entrepreneurs and helped build more than 300 companies globally, including Snapchat, The Honest Company, Nest, Nutanix, AppDynamics, MuleSoft, GrubHub, and TaskRabbit. The Firm currently manages over $4 billion of committed capital and invests in the U.S. and internationally, with investment professionals and advisors in Silicon Valley, Israel, India and China. www.lsvp.com.

For full portfolio, visit http://lsvp.com/portfolio/

About Menlo Ventures

Menlo Ventures provides capital for seed through growth technology companies in the consumer and enterprise sectors. Since 1976, the firm’s market-driven analysis has led to the identification of and successful exits in innovative technology markets. Notable areas of investment include Mobile (Siri, Uber, Machine Zone, Roku), Social & eCommerce (Tumblr, Lumosity, Poshmark), Cloud (Carbonite, EdgeCast, Dropcam, Vidyo), Storage & Big Data (3Par, Coraid, Tintri, Avere Systems), Digital Advertising (Flurry, YuMe, DataXu, Dstillery, eXelate) and Security (Cavium, IronPort, nCircle, BitSight). Menlo’s portfolio includes 70+ public companies and 100+ mergers and acquisitions. Menlo’s guiding philosophy is to Venture Right, working side-by-side with portfolio entrepreneurs as allies, serving ethically on boards as company builders with decades of market expertise, and opening access to a curated network of advisors. Menlo Ventures has $4.4B under management and is currently investing Menlo Ventures XII, a $400M fund with $15M allocated to the Menlo Talent Fund for fast seed funding. For more information, visit http://www.menlovc.com.

 

— Parker Yates

Highly-publicized cloud provider outages, changing threat landscape fuel adoption of redundant DNS

NEW YORK – April 26, 2017 – NS1®, the leading intelligent DNS and traffic management provider, announced today continued triple-digit growth in the first quarter of 2017, propelled by the growing need for application resiliency. In the wake of major outages of cloud-based mission critical services, IT leaders are focusing on strategies to ensure their essential business applications stay online.
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NS1 offers the only solution on the market that provides managed DNS redundancy through a single pane of glass, enabling enterprises to simplify DNS management while taking advantage of the industry’s most advanced traffic management capabilities. NS1 continues to further its vision to Build a Smarter Internet™ as the company marks significant milestones in 2017.

Key NS1 2017 developments include:

• Exceeded Q1 2017 revenue targets as the company continues to grow at a triple-digit rate and acquire key customers.
• New customer acquisitions for Managed DNS continue to thrive as customers look for enterprise-class solutions that enable digital transformation and the move to the cloud.
• Launched an integration with the Terraform infrastructure automation tool, broadening the depth of NS1’s support for enterprises adopting infrastructure as code strategies.
• Rapid acceleration in Europe, the Middle East and Asia following the opening of NS1’s new Brighton UK office.
• Released support for CERT DNS records, enabling healthcare providers participating in DirectTrust to securely exchange patient care information in compliance with HIPAA regulations.

To help further industry awareness of the need for redundant DNS, NS1 is participating in several upcoming events, including:

• May 8-10, 2017: Co-founder and CEO Kris Beevers will deliver a presentation at the Gartner IT Operations Strategies and Solutions Summit in Orlando, Florida.
• May 22-24, 2017: Co-founder and chief product officer Jonathan Sullivan will present a solution demo atMonitorama 2017 in Portland, Oregon.
• June 20-22, 2017: Kris Beevers will present a keynote at the 2017 Velocity San Jose Conference, titled Resiliency in a Service Provider World.
• The company will exhibit at RBTE, Gartner IO, Interop ITX, DevOpsDays Seattle, DevOpsDays Austin, Monitorama, Velocity New York and Velocity San Jose.

Kris Beevers, NS1 co-founder and CEO, said:
“Recent events affecting cloud service providers across a number of technology areas, including DNS, cloud storage, networking, and more, have continued to highlight the critical importance of redundancy and resiliency at every layer of the application delivery stack. DNS is the entry point to every application, and deploying redundant DNS networks is critical to any resilient infrastructure strategy in 2017. Our customers, from the best known internet brands to the largest enterprises, trust NS1 to design and deliver highly resilient DNS technologies that ensure uptime without compromising on performance or traffic management features.”
Additional Resources:

·       Download NS1’s research note on the the Amazon S3 outage

·       Watch a demo of the NS1 platform

·       Read the NS1 blog

·       Visit the NS1 Developer Hub

About NS1
NS1’s intelligent DNS and traffic management platform, with its data-driven architecture and unique Filter Chain™ routing engine, is purpose-built for the most demanding, mission-critical applications on the Internet. NS1’s comprehensive platform technology leverages infrastructure, application and network data to make intelligent routing decisions in real time, ensuring optimal application performance and reliability. NS1’s customers include Yelp, LinkedIn, Imgur, Taboola, OpenX and others. Visit ns1.com to learn more.

— Parker Yates

IoT Security Leader Makes it Easier for Developers to Implement Strong Security into IoT Devices

 

SAN FRANCISCO – April 26, 2017 – Mocana Corporation, a leading provider of industrial-strength security technology for mission-critical IoT and industrial control systems, today announced limited availability of the Mocana IoT Security Developer Kit (DevKit). The kit includes Mocana’s IoT security software modules integrated with an Infineon Technologies OPTIGA™ TPM chip on a Raspberry Pi, a credit card-sized computer. The kit provides developers, who may not have deep cybersecurity or cryptography expertise, with a way to simplify the notoriously difficult integration of hardware-based security features into IoT devices.

 

“Expecting developers to understand the more than 3,000 pages of documentation on the proper implementation of TPM is impractical,” said Srinivas Kumar, Vice President of Engineering at Mocana. “Our DevKit provides an easy to use developer interface that greatly simplifies and accelerates the development and testing of critical IoT security functions based on hardware security – in this case a TPM chip.”

 

One of the world’s leading technology analyst firms predicts that more than 20 billion devices will be connected to the IoT by 2020. Along with this massive growth, comes the need for strong security that can be easily integrated into these billions of devices. The ubiquity of hardware-based security chips and the low-cost of Raspberry Pi makes the Mocana solution a perfect answer to the demands of developers and device manufacturers that want to familiarize themselves with the concepts and functionality of calling cryptographic functions implemented by a TPM.

 

Customized for a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B board, the Mocana IoT Security DevKit includes the following Mocana software modules:

• An API layer and abstraction platform that simplifies integration with hardware-based security features.
• A secure cryptographic engine for asymmetric and symmetric ciphers.
• Secure transport for SSL, SSH and Wi-Fi (via an 802.11i supplicant).
• Secure key and certificate storage and management based on SCEP, OCSP and EST protocols.

Developers will be able to test the following functionality out of the box with sample applications included with the DevKit:

• Use the Mocana security API layer to generate TPM keypairs and leverage TPM functionalities.
• Establish SSL or SSH connections with TPM keys and certificate-based mutual authentication.
• Establish secure connectivity using an 802.11i (WPA2) supplicant to connect to a Wireless Access Point.
• Demonstrate remote attestation of the platform using a TPM-signed quote.
• Generate TPM keys and X.509 certificates based on SCEP and EST (RFC 7030) certificate management protocols.

“Industrial device manufacturers, IoT solution providers and contract manufacturers are demanding solutions to accelerate the integration of TPM technology,” said Steve Hanna, Senior Principal at Infineon. “Mocana’s IoT Security DevKit, which integrates our OPTIGA™ TPM hardware, is a comprehensive low-cost solution for anyone looking to harden IoT devices and underlying software with TPM cryptoprocessors.”

 

The Mocana IoT Security DevKit, which includes a 90-day evaluation license, is available for qualified device manufacturers and IoT solution providers with plans to implement strong security within nine months.

 

To request the Mocana IoT Security Developer Kit, visit www.mocana.com/devkit.

 

About Mocana

Founded in 2002, Mocana provides mission-critical IoT security solutions for embedded systems, industrial controls and the Internet of Things (IoT). Our proven cybersecurity software goes beyond traditional security approaches by making IoT and ICS devices trustworthy and enabling secure device-to-cloud communications. Mocana’s full-stack platform operates across complex, multi-vendor environments where performance and security are critical to ensuring safety and reliability. Hundreds of industrial and IoT companies depend on Mocana’s military-grade technology to protect millions of IoT devices, controllers and embedded systems. Mocana is privately held, and our investors include Shasta Ventures, Trident Capital, Sway Ventures, Southern Cross Venture Partners, GE Capital, Intel Ventures, Panasonic and Symantec. www.mocana.com

 

Media Contact:

Brianna Galloway

Bhava Communications

mocana@bhavacom.com

510-356-0013

— Parker Yates

New facilities in Dallas, Texas, and Washington, D.C., part of IBM’s global cloud expansion with more than 55 global cloud data centers

 

ARMONK, N.Y. – 26 April 2017: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the opening of four new IBM Cloud DataCenters in the United States to meet growing enterprise demand for cloud infrastructure that can provide access to services like IoT, blockchain, quantum computing and cognitive.

 

IBM Cloud’s global network includes cloud data centers in key local markets around the world so clients can run their data and applications locally to meet performance and regulatory needs. With data centers across 19 countries and six continents, enterprises can provision cloud infrastructure when and where they need. The new cloud data centers in the U.S. can provide clients with infrastructure they need to manage and gain insight from their data while also taking advantage of IBM’s advanced cognitive services with Watson on the IBM Cloud.

 

The opening of two new facilities in Dallas, Texas, and two new facilities in Washington, D.C., is a key part of IBM’s investment to expand its global cloud footprint in 2017, which includes the opening of eight new cloud datacenters around the world in the first half of the year.

 

As enterprises increasingly turn to AI to generate value from their data, demand for public and hybrid cloud infrastructure continues to grow. According to IDC, worldwide spending on public cloud services and infrastructure will reach $203.4 billion by 2020, a 21.5% compound annual growth rate – nearly seven times the rate of overall IT spending growth. ^[1]

 

“IBM is making major investments to expand our global cloud data centers in 2017 and provide the infrastructure necessary for enterprises to run the cognitive, big data, blockchain and IoT workloads they require,” said John Considine, general manager for cloud infrastructure, IBM. “IBM’s growing global cloud footprint across 19 countries and six continents gives enterprises the flexibility and scale to run their most complex workloads when and where they need.”

 

The new U.S. facilities can enable companies to digitize business and operations and drive cognitive innovation through the IBM Cloud. Clients of all sizes are already taking advantage of the benefits of the IBM Cloud including Bitly, Halliburton, Kimberly-Clark Professional and Projetech.

 

IBM’s Expanding Global Cloud Footprint

IBM now has more than 55 global cloud data centers in 19 countries spanning six continents to help enterprises manage and gain insight into their data no matter where it resides. The opening of additional facilities in Dallas, Texas, and Washington, D.C., marks 22 IBM data centers across the U.S.

 

The news reinforces IBM’s commitment to expand its cloud presence around the world in 2017 and builds on strong global momentum from 2016. In 2016, IBM opened the industry’s first cloud data center in the Nordics as well as a new cloud data center located outside of Seoul in South Korea. Additionally, IBM announced in November that it is tripling its cloud data center capacity in the U.K. with four new facilities.

 

Each of the four new facilities now open in the U.S. has the capacity for thousands of physical servers and offers a full range of cloud infrastructure services, including bare metal servers, virtual servers, storage, security services and networking. With services deployed on demand and full remote access and control, customers can create their ideal public, private or hybrid cloud environments.

 

IBM’s cloud infrastructure is cognitive at the core and uniquely geared for big data workloads. IBM operates one of the largest fleets of bare metal servers and offers the latest NVIDIA® GPU accelerators – including the Tesla® P100, Tesla K80 and the Tesla M60 – to enable enterprises to quickly and efficiently run compute-heavy workloads, such as AI, deep learning and high performance data analytics. Through its partnership with SAP, IBM offers clients SAP certified Bluemix infrastructure to run their business-critical SAP applications on the cloud.

 

About IBM Cloud:

For more information, visit: http://www.ibm.com/cloud-computing.

[1] IDC: Worldwide Semiannual Public Cloud Services Spending Guide, February 20, 2017

 

— Parker Yates

Led by Polaris Partners, Series B Funding Round Includes Existing Investors YL Ventures, TenEleven and Rally Ventures

 

San Francisco — April 25, 2017 — Twistlock, the leading provider of cloud container security solutions, today announced it raised $17 million in Series B funding, led by Polaris Partners, designed to support continued innovation and market leadership in the container security space. Twistlock’s venture capital investment to date totals $30 million. In addition to new lead investor Polaris Partners, existing investors YL Ventures, TenEleven and Rally Ventures participated in the round, and Brendan Hannigan of Polaris has joined the Twistlock Board of Directors as Chairman.

 

“As containers gain mainstream momentum and cloud-native applications surge, practices such as DevOps culture, continuous delivery, cloud development and containerization require a reinvention of security,” said Brendan Hannigan, Twistlock chairman and venture partner at Polaris Partners, “Twistlock has leapt to the leadership of container security by delivering rapid innovation and customer growth and is spearheading new ways to secure applications which address persistent flaws in old security solutions that have haunted customers for years.”

 

Announced earlier this month, the release of Twistlock 2.0 brings enhanced visibility and compliance to containerized environments and was built to handle even the most stringent of enterprise security requirements. Twistlock’s unique approach to application security uses machine learning to automatically create and enforce security models, giving developers the agility they need to deliver software in the modern world.

 

Twistlock’s Series B funding continues strong momentum for the company.  Since the release of Twistlock 1.0 in November 2015, Twistlock’s customer base has grown over 325 percent, with over 40 customers worldwide as of early 2017. The company opened its Portland, OR office in Q4 2016, which has experienced more than 200 percent growth in the first few months of 2017 as the company continues to scale with offices in New York, Portland, San Francisco and Herzylia, Israel. In addition to this global expansion, Twistlock continues to demonstrate its commitment to industry leadership by collaborating with industry partners and NIST on developing recommendations for container security.

 

“We are pleased to bring Polaris and Brendan’s expertise into the fold, especially given his track record of leadership success both in the security startup scene as well as significantly scaling the security practice at IBM,” Ben Bernstein, CEO and co-founder at Twistlock. “This investment and partnership with all participants in the round validates Twistlock’s success in product delivery and customer adoption, while providing us instrumental support as we continue to scale our team and deliver innovative security solutions.”

 

Additional Resources:

• Learn more about Twistlock 2.0
• Read the Twistlockblog
• Follow us onTwitter
• Follow us onLinkedIn

 

About Twistlock

Twistlock is the industry’s first enterprise security suite for container security. Twistlock’s technology addresses risks on the host and within the application of the container, enabling enterprises to consistently enforce security policies, monitor and audit activity and identify and isolate threats in a container or cluster of containers. Twistlock’s mission is to provide a full, enterprise-grade security stack for containers, so organizations can confidently adopt and maximize the benefits of containers in their production environment. For more information, please visit www.twistlock.com

 

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— Parker Yates

PORTLAND, Ore., April 24, 2017 — IT Revolution (http://itrevolution.com), the industry leader for advancing DevOps, today announced it has opened its Call for Presentations for DevOps Enterprise Summit San Francisco 2017. The event, brought to you by IT Revolution and founding partner Electric Cloud, takes place November 13–15, 2017 at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square. The call for presentations deadline is Wednesday, May 24, 2017 (http://bit.ly/DOES17SFOcfp). Abstract submissions should address the conference themes of Cost vs. Speed, Low Trust vs. High Trust, Manual vs. Automation, Fragile vs. Resilient and Fixed Careers vs. Lifelong Learning.

Want the best tips from Gene Kim on how to get your speaker proposal accepted? Visit (http://itrevolution.com/getting-presentation-submission-accepted-devops-enterprise-summit-2017/) to learn more!

Additionally, IT Revolution has opened Blind Bird pricing for early ticket purchases for the San Francisco event, which can be obtained for only $1,250, more than a 30 percent discount from regularly priced tickets (bit.ly/DOES17SFOreg). Blind Bird pricing will also close on May 24, 2017 – don’t delay, the conference has sold out every year since the inaugural event in 2014.

“We’re so excited to be returning to San Francisco to host the fourth DevOps Enterprise Summit in the United States,” said Gene Kim, founder of IT Revolution and co-author of ‘The Phoenix Project’ and ‘The DevOps Handbook.’ “We’re lining up another three days full of brilliant speakers, experience reports, subject matter experts, forums for networking, and more, so attendees can get the insights and practical takeaways they need. You’ll hear from fellow practitioners in large, complex organizations sharing concrete examples of improvements and transformations as a result of their DevOps initiatives.”

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The DevOps Enterprise Summit is the premier industry conference for leaders of large, complex organizations implementing DevOps principles and practices around the world. The event theme is “Deep Dive into DevOps” and features presentations from leading global brands that leverage DevOps principles and practices to thrive within an increasingly software-driven economy. Sessions are led by technology leaders who are pioneering these practices in large and complex organizations across a wide range of industries. The keynotes feature industry luminaries, as well as speakers from well-known companies who share the learnings from their enterprise DevOps initiatives.

Join us for a CrowdChat!

On April 25, 2017 at 7:00am PDT / 3:00pm BST, Gene Kim will be joined by fellow DevOps Enterprise Summit community members for a social media chat focusing on the latest and greatest principles and practices surrounding DevOps transformations. To join, simply login to the CrowdChat portal to join the discussion (http://bit.ly/2pjuoL4).

About IT Revolution

IT Revolution assembles technology leaders and practitioners through publishing, events, and research. Our goal is to elevate the state of technology work, quantify the economic and human costs associated with suboptimal IT performance, and to improve the lives of IT professionals.

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— Parker Yates